UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan told the UN Security Council Monday that it's 'affirmative action on Palestine's application for UN membership would lead to a lasting solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rectify the injustices suffered by the Palestinian people. The impressive march of the ...

U.S. President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas discussing Palestinian-Israeli settlement among other issues, the White House said in a statement. "The President noted the positive momentum generated by the recent improvements on the ...